The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1898, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1898. Buying “Liquor.Filled Candy” in a Popular Candy Store. +++ ooo¢oooooo¢¢»ooooo&oo#oQQ&#fi**r*O: 5 Spa ot o=y S £~ s d 4 + Official Analysis of the Candy. I + y Bave lyzed samples known as “chocolates filled with : - £68° 1 the cor d to be rum, water and sugar. + Yours FRANK T. GREEN, 8 - C San Francisco Board of Health, Ete. : + D e S22 L e R A A et o JAUTIFUL box d u The candy shops in the Western Ad- great many ‘“cordial” Woman's Christian are choc she did - liquor, t whereas no ach them in their protected lives. mber bought a im's on Polk and n m m at Bernkb eets I want to buy a box olates for my little girl,” the is the cordial made of?” in- e lady promptly responded the shop y little girl will W. C. T. U. mem- all the children iIn this »od are just crazy for them. @ @ E of rum-filled candies. @ in the way of cre @ than the @ - rum that @ the child the chocolates entirely ignorant of their contents. It is more ® of a m ce to children than the saloon. For if a child is given liq- our straight he does not like the taste as a rule. But he soon learns to like it when it is done up so seductively in chocolates. Mothers’ attention must be called to these candies and public sentiment r form of temptation Were it not for the rum- DI PPRPIOPOPPIPOOOOPPPPIOPOSPS Mrs. Maria Freeman Gray, President of the W. C. 4 T. U., Declares the Law Should 4 Act Promptly. VERY effort should be made to stem the increasing popularity I think it i{s the most dangerous practice ng an appetite. practice of giving to the children the sugar saturated with eft in the bottom of the glass. Because a mother gives It is even more harmful 9009900906400 00000900 by a chemist. Won’t you throw them away?” “We've eaten them all up. Anyway % . aroused. But to make it absolutely effectual there should be a law eave oUt 4 geainst such candies and a fine for their manufacture and sale. fination & There are so many instances where we must first decrease the de- : © mand be we can ask the manufacturer to cease. But this is a © practice that can and must be stopped at once. o ® hat is, it tasted pe- Q@& & & 98000000 PP 0200090900206 6000 of the W. C. T. U. 3 g man ana he They llke them better than any other “Oh, she won't know what they are, kind. I'm sure she'll like them; all responded the other girl, and forthwith nounced ‘the children do. I like them myself,” and She ordered a pound of “cordial choco- , who is not a of the W.. the shop girl ate one with evident lates.” e ; . relish. “What is the cordlal made of?” asked the W. C. T. U. member. 0 0300609090008 0000008000000000806066600 “I don’t know,” repiled the girl > & hastily, “‘but they are rather nice,” and ¢ How Mrs. Dorcas J. Spencer, Secretary of the W. :arllushxins at her fib the two girls left @ e o e store. 2 C. T. U., Discovered the ““Rum- The girl who bought the rum-filled & : 5 " candy was rather surprised to receive 54 Filled Candies. & visit from the W. C. T. U. member 14 % : at sa afternoon. . “TIONS filled with aleohol in any form are a most serlous B e S ot eve vame P y the well-being of the nation. It is a scientific fact said, *“to tell you that those cordial @ that.there are a large number of persons who have a latent in- @ chocolates are filed with rum.” @ itance of alcohclic appetite. This mayremain dormant through @ “Oh, I don’t think so,” sald the girl, & life if it has no awakening stimulant. An alcoholic-filled confection @ “'Ae%kly. it e S @ is one of the most in us methods of enkindling that appetite. & am positive. e r @ " e S0 en the recipients of these candies and there- @ say so and 1 have had them analyzed * @ ® ® could n me that there was not a first carry them covered it. * 0000900000000 00000 0000000000000 600000 these rum-filled The others:'were harm concoc- candies were ta- d shown to the iembers of the W. the candy ate the mat- d for five of cand d chocolates? store. 7" she Sp Haas' y fil girl. what?” inquired the “I don’t know,” responded the lady; ’s some sort of liquid,” vou mean the candles filled with and the girl proceeded to mea- out the required amount. Most people like chocolates, don't said the W. C. T. U. member, Y especially these filled with cor- dial,” answered the girl. Gruenhagen's was the next store vis- jted. Chocoiates filled with rum were purchased, the shop girl making no se- cret of the nature of the ingredient. “What 4o you call these candies?” asked the W. C. T. U. member. “Chocolates filed with cordials,” answered the gir! ““Are they good?"” inquired the lady. “Everybody likes them, They are very popular. We sell a great many,” responded the girl. A number of the smaller shops down town were visited and In all of them the rum-filled or “cordial” chocolates were obtainable. 1dies their tasts for liauors might never be awakened. When ting advertisements for our annual report I found that we accept the advertisements of confectioners, as all the leading made and sold rum-filled candles. class Some way should be evolved for stopping this nefarious If there is anything worse than alcohol Satan never dis- One confectioner openly told dealer in the city who did not @ @ @ @ L 4 L4 The W. C. T. U. member went back to Maskey's, where the original hox was bought. She saw two young ladies whom she knew entering the store. Théy met at the counter, “Walt till she goes out before you buy them; she's @ W. C. T. U.,” she heard one girl whisper. 7 there isn’'t enough rum in them to hurt,” answered the girl defiantly. Then the W. C. T. U. her something that known. It was of a man who had taken “‘not enough to hurt” and finally had died a drunkard's horrible death. “Is that the reason I like the candies so much? Have I inherited the taste from papa? Now that I realize the danger I can fight against it,”” and the girl crushed the empty box resolutely end tearfully thanked her friend. Then the W. C. T. U. member went over to Oakland. She toured the candy stores there and in most of them found “cordial chocolates.” She bought a box of assorted choco- lates and took them out to a friend. “Here is the kind the baby likes,” $9®‘$Q®®QQé@@@09@000900000000@00000000 ® the Official aware that such candles existed. their children. gown. 209900 PPPPPPPP00000000Q e 0200000200000 0000000000000000000000 0 Opinion of Mrs. Nellie Blessing Eyster, Editor of Organ of the W.C T U HE confectioner who sells rum-filled candies should use on his pla- cards “Will you walk into my parlor, said the spider to the fly, for he is offering something the contents of which are unknown, and wherein lurks deadly danger. I am told, however, that they have been on the market for some time, and that their popularity is con- stantly increasing. Now that mothers are aware of the existence of rum-filled confections they can take precautions to keep them from But as long as the manufacture and sale of rum-filled candies is allowed it will be almost impossible to prevent such candies from falling into hands where they will do infinite mischief. put up in such a seductive form may create an appetite for liquor which otherwise might never have been aroused. It matters not that the quantity of rum in each candy is small. ficlency to create a desire for more and thereby another life wrecked. A box of confections that contains one of these rum-filied candles is not a sultable gift for man, woman or child. But unfortunately candy more often falle to the child, and thus is the first seed of temptation Some way must be determined upon to grapple with and erush the practice of filling candies with rum. Heretofore I was not even Rum There is an ample suf- 099003009009 0000000992006006906 ¢ member told she had never "LIQUOR-FILLED CANDY” SOLD WOMEN AND CHILDREN RUM, BRANDY, WINE AND ABSINTHE SOLD IN CONFECTIONS IN VARIOUS CANDY OTORES, Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Investigate the Matter P Al and Decide to Inaugurate an Active Campaign fo Stamp Qut the Evfl MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION DISCUSSING THE “LIQUOR-FILLED CANDY" PROBLEM AND PASSING RESOLUTIONS AGAINST THE EVIL. at the bank, having been a depositor for would have torn down the railing before sald her friend, biting into a cordial chocolate. “Do you know what that is?” asked the W. C. T. U. member. “No. I have always intended to ask what they flavor these candies with be- cause the children are so fond of them.” “If you knew that it was rum would you allow the children to eat them?"” “Certainly not. But is it really rum? I never imagined such a thing. To think that I have been buying them un- knowingly and perhaps giving the chil- dren an appetite for rum. You ought to let every mother know what the contents of these candies are so“that they can be on their guard. Many mothers are now committing a crime tl.hlré)v'gh ignorance and they should be old. That is exactly what the W. C. T. U. member thought. 80 at the meeting of the San Fran- cisco W. C. T. U. last Wednesday she brought up the subject. She told of her investigations and a very animated dis- cussion followed. : Some of the iadles had lon, aware of the existence of alg;o!?re)fig liquors In confections, but none had o000 ¢ @ entirely fgnorant - ! a stab In the dark. They fall into deadly work. like the taste and seek it in other entire nation., 3 EE AR R R R R R R RORORORCR S eral transmitter of the alcoholic taint. should at once be legisiated against. Mrs. A. E. Bradley, Business Manager of the Pacific : Ensign, Says “Rum-Filled”" Candy Must & Not Be Sold. % N allowing the sale of rum-filled confections we are laying the & first stepping-stone to intemperance. People buy the candies and, & they are fiiled with, eat them. If there @ is a dormant instinct, an appetite is soon created. These candies are ¢ the hands of children and do their & Girls who otherwise would never be tempted learn to & forms and in greater quantities. & There seems to be little doubt that the female parent is the more gen- @ How much sin and misery then. ¢ can be accomplished by these seemingly harmless candies! The sale & and manufacture of any confections containing alcohol in any form @ It particularly menaces our @ children, and thus strikes a blowat the hope and salvation of the @ @ still eat them and give them to children it will not be through ignorance of their contents. But if they can possibly bring it about the W. C. T. U. will drive the confections filled with alcoholic stimu- lants entirely out of the market. e e BANKING IN SWITZERLAND. Some of the methods are sufficlently antlquated, according to our standards. instance, it requires fifteen minutes ich to make a deposit at a bank. Every banking house has numerous chairs outside the railing, and the visitor is expected to sit quietly and cultivate a spirit of patience while the machinery is etting under way. A customer who vishes to make a deposit goes to a window and hands in his money, together with a memorandum of the amount. The employe behind the railing counts the money and prepares a receipt for it, add- ing his signature by way of preliminar: Then a small boy takes this receipt u stairs and submits it to an official, who studies and then ponders for a while as to whether it will be safe to take the money. 1f he decides that the bank can undertake the risk he passes the receipt to another man, who prepares a dupli- cate slip and makes several entries and finally signs his name. Then, as soon as 2200000000000 0000000006000000 @ @ 0000000000990 9009000PP0POPORPPOC®CCOGOS®O ever realized how widespread was their sale. They unanimously agreed that it was a most dangerous habit. Ways and means of preventing the sale of such candies were discussed. The ladies de- termjned that something must be done at once as the confections filled with rum are temptations that assail those who otherwise might never meet the tempter. A definite way of fighting the rum-filled chocolates was put over till the next meeting and the following resolution was adopted by a unanimous vote: Moved that we greatly deplore the increased popularity of the use of alcohalic liquors in confectionery —Dbelieving that thereby a pernicious taste is engendered and a_danger- ous habit encouraged. We most heartily approve of any action pro- hibiting the manufacture and sale of the same ‘Whether the candy dealers will take the same point of view that the W. C. T. U. does is a guestion, The chemist who analyzed the choco- lates says that the percentage of rum in each candy is small. But the W. C. T. U. care not about the amount. They say there is enough to create a longing in the eater if she has a latent tendency toward alcohol, and certainly enough to awaken a de- sire for more if the taste of the candies is found particularly agreeable. So th: Union is determined that at least every one shall know the exact nature of the ingredients of the so- called “chocolate cordials.” If women another man has examined the receipt and added his name, it Is taken downstairs and turned over to the depositor. There is one satisfaction —the money is thor- oughly deposited. An American residing in Zurich went to the bank the other day with a check which had been given to him by a busi- ness man in a large town near here. He handed in the check, and twenty minutes later received his money, less 14 cents charges. The American was well known about two years. check. A busy and nervous Chicago man He had Indorsed the the twenty minutes expired.—Zurich cor- respondence Chicago Record. 0000000000000 00000000CCOOOCCOD00000000 o0 00000000000 AVE you jcined the Non-Treat- ing Club yet? If you haven't you had better get a button and declare your- self a member as soon as you can. That is if you wish to be up to date, for the Non-Treating Club is one of the greatest movements ever started in this or any other country, at least its promoters say it is. The Non-Treating Club started in Chicago only a few weeks ago. It now THE NON-TREATING CLUB HAS JUST COME TO TOWN OBJECT: When you want a drink take it, and don’t imadine you will offend anyone by not asking eight or ten to “join you.” ©0000000000000000GCO0000C000000000000 has thousands of members all over the country and has just struck San Fran- cisco. The first box of 500 buttons was received here only a few days ago and already the supply is exhausted. An order for several thousand has been sent to Chicago and it is very apparent that they won’t last long after they get here. Everybody who has joined the Non- Treating Club thinks it the greatest scheme that ever was, and many who haven’'t joined are singing its praises and calling aloud for a button and a membership card. In fact the only men who have been heard to utter a word against the Non- Treating Club are the saloon-keepers. They say it is bad because it strikes at sociability. Members of the Non- Treating Club have another explana- tion. With a membership of only a few thousand in San Francisco the Non- Treating Club could strike a heavier blow at the evils of the liquor business than all the temperance talk that has been launched here in years or any pro- hibition law that has been enacted. ‘The founder of the Non-Treating Club is E. T. Monett of Chicago. He says that the club was formed to correct the evils of the treating habit in saloons. Summed up the principal evil of the PEOPPVOPLPROOIPPOPIVPLOPPPIVPPPPOPOPOOCI®PROPOPEPO [Ea o OBJECT. eight or ten to PLEDGE. TERMS. some friend, PP SPIPIPFIPOIOIQOOIOOOIS A1.6) “NON TREATING CLUB.” FREE FOR ALL. When you waant a drink, tak: it, and don’t im- agine you will otfend any one by not askicg Wear the Button and make a pledge to yourself not to treat any one who is a member. Do not detach the Batton from this card if you have any conscientious scruple , but pass it to “MANY HAPPY DAYS.” 222 2 R R T T TR R RN Y “join you.” PPPIPPPPIOIPOPOOPOPIGSOGD Fac-Simiiie of the Card of the Non-Treating Club. 0000000000000 o treating habit is that it makes us drink too much. “I like a glass of wine,” says Mr. Monett. “I am satisfled the giass of wine will do me no harm; in fact, not as much as a cup of tea. ‘But one glass is all I do want. More than one glass causes a slight discomfort—the same as too much food. And yet it is hard to get only one glass. “You ask why? Well, if I go into a saloon and see a friend there it gener- ally follows that I have to ask him to drink. If this treating habit stopped there all would be well. kut he asks me to drink also, and if 1 refuse he feels offended. Then other friends come in and the process Is repeated. The re- uit 1s that before I know it I have more than is good for me. Button of the Noa-T; 8 “The Non-Treat- Club. ing Club was start- ed by myself and a few friends agreeing not to treat one another. In a very few days we all saw the benefit of the plan and explained it to others, who at once became eager to join. At present it is possible for me tc leave my office, get my own drink and come back without offending my friends and foolishly drinking more than is good for me. It's a great scheme. The railroad men have taken it up and are spreading the good work."” At present it is a little hard to pick out the Non-Treating Club buttons from among the vast number being worn for favorite candidates. But the buttons are there. The five hundred have been well distributed. When they are cast among a lot of friends they do the most good, for each understands th;hfeellngs of the others. e most noticeable move: this kind has been among m;‘fimm Professor Van der Naillen’s school of engineering. Most of them are men somewhat aleng in years, but as usual }hey fell lnlo}‘lhe L})”?g? habit of treat. ng one another. It was v 5 ciability. gere E\_U =T But now all is changed.. The enti seventy-five pupils have joined n‘ll‘;g Non-Treating Club, No pupil will ac. cept or tender a drink when one or more of them are together. If one wants a drink he buys it and the others are not offended at not being asked. The result is that they have all that they want to drink, but no more, and consequently have more money than they had under the ¢ld pernicious treat- ing system. That's why they're shouting: rah for the Non-Treating Club!" of pils of “Hur- ————— The Japanese Government has con- cluded to establish at Tokio a unh'erso!?y Ubrary after the model of the Congres- sional Library at Washinigton. It s to have room for 600,000 volumes and 500 Rlaces for readers.